massive update to i/o schedulers, thx to kasper_h
Original work of many authors, Individual patches:

block: fiops bias sync workload
block: fiops preserve vios key for deep queue depth workload
block: fiops add ioprio support
block: fiops sync/async scale
block: fiops read/write request scale
block: fiops ioscheduler core
by: Shaohua Li

block: row: Fix starvation tolerance values
by: Maya Erez authored 2 months ago

block: urgent request: Update dispatch_urgent in case of requeue/rein
block: row: Update sysfs functions
block: row: Prevent starvation of regular priority by high priority
block: urgent request: remove unnecessary urgent marking
block: row: Re-design urgent request notification mechanism
block: row: Update initial values of ROW data structures
block: row: Don't notify URGENT if there are un-completed urgent req
block: row: Idling mechanism re-factoring
block: row: Dispatch requests according to their io-priority
block:row: fix idling mechanism in ROW
block: ROW: Correct minimum values of ROW tunable parameters
by: Tatyana Brokhman

block: blk-core: add printk_ratelimit
by: Asutosh Das

block: blk-merge: don't merge the pages with non-contiguous descriptors
by: Subhash Jadavani authored 5 months ago

cfq-iosched: Fix null pointer dereference
by: Sujit Reddy Thumma

block: Add BLKROTATIONAL ioctl
block: Introduce blk_set_stacking_limits function
by: Martin K. Petersen

block: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() in exit_io_context()
block: an exiting task should be allowed to create io_context
block: recursive merge requests
by: Tejun Heo

block: ioc_cgroup_changed() needs to be exported
by: axboe

block, cfq: fix empty queue crash caused by request merge
by: Shaohua Li

block, cfq: move icq creation and rq->elv.icq association to block core
block, cfq: restructure io_cq creation path for io_context interface
block, cfq: move io_cq exit/release to blk-ioc.c
block, cfq: move icq cache management to block core
block, cfq: move io_cq lookup to blk-ioc.c
block, cfq: move cfqd->icq_list to request_queue and add request->elv
block, cfq: reorganize cfq_io_context into generic and cfq specific
block, cfq: replace current_io_context() with create_io_context() …
block, cfq: kill cic->key
block, cfq: kill ioc_gone
block, cfq: remove delayed unlink
block, cfq: unlink cfq_io_context's immediately
block, cfq: fix cic lookup locking
block, cfq: fix race condition in cic creation path and tighten locking
block, cfq: move ioc ioprio/cgroup changed handling to cic
block, cfq: misc updates to cfq_io_context
block, cfq: move cfqd->cic_index to q->id
block: misc updates to blk_get_queue()
Initialize request_count in __make_request
block: make ioc get/put interface more conventional and fix race
block: misc ioc cleanups
block: add missing blk_queue_dead() checks
block: fix drain_all condition in blk_drain_queue()
block: add blk_queue_dead()
block, sx8: kill blk_insert_request()
block: don't call blk_drain_queue() if elevator is not up
block: fix request_queue lifetime handling by making blk_queue_cleanup
block: drop @tsk from attempt_plug_merge() and explain sync rules
block: make get_request[_wait]() fail if queue is dead
block: reorganize throtl_get_tg() and blk_throtl_bio()
block: drop unnecessary blk_get/put_queue() in scsi_cmd_ioctl()
block: reorganize queue draining
block: pass around REQ_* flags instead of broken down booleans during
block: move blk_throtl prototypes to block/blk.h
block: fix genhd refcounting in blkio_policy_parse_and_set()
by: Tejun Heo

blk-throttle: use queue_is_locked() instead of lockdep_is_held()
by: axboe

blk-throttle: Take blkcg->lock while traversing blkcg->policy_list
blk-throttle: Free up policy node associated with deleted rule
by: Vivek Goyal

block: warn if tag is greater than real_max_depth
block: Remove the control of complete cpu from bio
by: taoma-tm

blk-flush: fix invalid BUG_ON in blk_insert_flush
by: Jeff Moyer

block: fix a typo in the blk-cgroup.h file
by: pibroch

ida: make ida_simple_get/put() IRQ saf
by: Tejun Heo

fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task.
by: Justin TerAvest

block: strict rq_affinity
by: djbw

block: reorder request_queue to remove 64 bit alignment padding
by: Richard Ke

block: document blk_plug list a
block: avoid building too big plug list
by: Shaohua Li

bloc
by: gaowanlong

backing-dev: us
by: Mikulas Patocka

compat_i
compat_ioctl: fix make headers_check
by: Johannes Stezenbach

Conflicts:

	block/Kconfig.iosched
	block/Makefile
	block/blk-core.c
	block/blk.h
	block/elevator.c
	block/row-iosched.c
	block/sio-iosched.c
	include/linux/elevator.h